An online notebook
It strikes me that digital literacy is becoming more and more important, as more and more of the things we do in life are digitalised. It helps to understand how computers work if you want to buy some music these days, or watch a film, or read a book. Not just the physcial act of … Keep reading
Reading some of the coverage of Instagram’s change in their terms of service, you’d have thought a murder had been committed. Or maybe that the world was about to end.
A few years down what might once have been called the Web 2.0 road, well funded companies are finding that they have built their networks, grown their user bases, and now shareholders are looking for some return on their investment. We should not, therefore, be surprised that the rules are changing, that the digital ground we’ve been standing on is shifting beneath our feet.
2010 has been an interesting year for the internet. Where will 2011 take us? Here’s a slightly apocalyptic set of thoughts. Wikileaks, privacy and security Anybody who has thought for even a moment about the implications of the internet and the web will have known that something like Wikileaks was always going to happen. It … Keep reading
There appears to be a considerable amount of uncertainty about the future of Delicious, the web’s preeminent social bookmarking service. Not sure what social bookmarking is? Here’s a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc It seems a shame that Yahoo! have been unable to find a way to make a service with plenty of active and dedicated users pay … Keep reading
Lloyd Davis is a lovely man, and a very clever one at that. He founded the Tuttle Club, a weekly networkingy sort of meetup for people who like the internet and other people, which is at the same time very simple but also rather ingenious. He also sports an even more ludicrous job title than … Keep reading